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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creators Jacob Phillips and Tate Brombal to the podcast to discuss their comic series Everything Dead & Dying and more!
Brombal is a comic book writer based in Toronto, Canada. His comic series House of Slaughter at BOOM! Studios with artist Chris Shehan spun out of James Tynion IV & Werther Dell’Edera’s hit Something is Killing the Children and debuted in 2021. His Eisner-nominated mini-series Barbalien: Red Planet (Dark Horse) alongside Eisner-winning artist Gabriel Hernández Walta also released in 2021 as a part of Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Black Hammer universe.
Tate’s also is the writer behind Behold, Behemoth (BOOM! Studios), and The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos (Dark Horse). Brombal also has written comics for DC such as New Titans, Batman, The Question, Batgirl, Green Lantern: Dark, and more!
Phillips is a comic artist and colorist residing in Manchester, UK. He has been drawing his whole life, self publishing first comic ‘Roboy’ at the age of 11 and selling it at Brighton Comic Con. Skip forward 16 years and today he is the artist on That Texas Blood and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery with writer Chris Condon and as well as Newburn with Chip Zdarsky as well as coloring projects such as Reckless, Criminal, and Madi.
Together, Brombal and Phillips released a five-issue miniseries Everything Dead & Dying at Image Comics. The collected edition hit shelves at local comic shops on April 8, 2026 and at bookstores everywhere on May 5.
